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Comment #49156862
But weren't they all made outside of Hollywood? Emeryville, around Europe and the UK, and then the UK for Toy Story 5, Odyssey, and Spiderman respectively?
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Comment #49123866
Anything he wants!
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Comment #48963770
IIRC the Alexa enabled voice remotes also used a similarly small model though perhaps not this small
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Comment #48936600
I’ve always been fascinated (and angry) at people that just don’t have trouble passing or getting interviews
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Comment #48920876
That’s amazing! I live next to their former office. Do you know which theater they rented out?
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Comment #48741217
So how much did they have to donate to the MAGA PAC for this one?
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Comment #48495581
I was hoping for Pantheon too (I’m 90% sure Holstrom uses EMacs instead of Vim?)
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Comment #48366761
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Comment #48209050
I’ll be honest this seems low for what he’s been through.
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Comment #48123870
There's not going to be many non-Ivy+ graduates at these companies. I make Jane Street/HRT/etc new grad pay 8 years into my career
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Comment #48089243
Cognitive elites are the MIT and Ivy+ grads that make up Jane Street like the speaker. People like me aren’t getting $5m+ bonuses for being an SRE (I don’t have the pedigree to wor…
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Comment #48079718
I'll never understand how these cognitive elites live. They're just a completely different kind of human than the rest of us.
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Comment #47818641
Can we squint and say the gut microbiome is kind of like this?
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Comment #47788141
I’ll be honest, I had a hard time getting through the LLM writing
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Comment #47735275
Correct, as he should have
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Comment #47665056
I went to a state school, worked at Amazon and didn’t get a 2300 on my SAT - I definitively am lower caste but the caste/class divergence isn’t well understood in culture I think.
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Comment #47663153
As someone that thinks of myself as a low-caste, middle class American it's interesting seeing all of these people listed in the article making less than me
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Comment #47485516
>btw 99% of MIT people are no different then the rest they just worked hard or paid hefty amounts I don't think that's true. I didn't get into any elite schools unlike almost all o…
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Comment #47464100
I genuinely think this is because the elites like the MIT dropouts that started this company think the rest of us observers are stupid. They have a billboard with the copy "Complia…
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Comment #47460092
The problem may not be "intellectually interesting" to them at all, but building B2B SaaS does appeal to them from a lifestyle/prestige/pedigree perspective and will probably get t…
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Comment #47454622
Major red flag with this should have been that their expensive marketing predicated heavily on them being MIT dropouts instead of any expertise in the space
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Comment #47371477
As someone trying to monitor the situation using Twitter the last few weeks it’s awful and it used to not be!
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Comment #46951024
I don't think he has an obligation to do anything. I just think he's a hack and your friendship is blinding you to this fact.
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Comment #46939899
I frequently follow Patrick's tweets. He hasn't said a single goddamn thing about this corrupt administration but keeps talking about Gavin Newsome's vaccine policy that was in eff…
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Comment #46929968
Personally, I’d prefer a slow mode that’s a ton cheaper for a lot of things.